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From: km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Using kbd/fb/mouse with tty console?
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 12 Jul 89 17:17:32 GMT
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We use a serial port (ttya) for the console on our Sun 4, but would like
to run X on the unused bitmap display/kbd/mouse.

Unfortunately, it looks as if when autoconfing notices that ttya is the
console, it never initializes the kbd/mouse, so the X server cannot open
them.

I presume the issue is the same for sunview.

Is there any way around this?

This is on SunOS 4.0

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